Why do we love Kate?
Whether she's stealing hearts on the Titanic, or breaking them in films like Jude and Hamlet, Kate lights up the screen and holds audiences in her spell. But more than her incredible ability to choose risky roles, we love Kate's forthrightness and her honesty in all things related to Hollywood's portrayal of women on and offscreen and the unrealistic expectations they force on women today. Kate is a standard bearer for being real and true to oneself and not succumbing to the negative and unhealthy image films and the media foist upon women.
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Biography:
Born - October 5, 1975
Reading, England
Achievements:
- Youngest actress to receive two Academy Award Nominations --
Sense and Sensibility (1995), Titanic (1997).
- Winner of the 1996 BAFTA Film Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role for Sense and Sensibility.
- Winner of the 1996 Screen Actors Guild Award for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role for Sense and Sensibility.
- Named British Actress of the Year in 1996 for Heavenly Creatures by The London Film Critics' Circle.
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In her own words -- On choosing a role:
"I'd never do anything that had gratuitous sex in it.
I'd never do anything that involved rape. I wouldn't do a film that had women being treated badly. They are not
interesting, they are horrible. That is what this society should be getting away from." |
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